Simon Clarke (born 18 July 1986) is an Australian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for

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. He previously rode for the (2011) and (2012–2015) teams in the UCI World Tour. Before turning professional, Clarke competed in

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as an

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scholarship holder. He is not related to fellow Australian cyclist and past teammate Will Clarke.

Professional career

At the

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, Clarke won the fourth stage of the race, after being a part of an early breakaway that made it home on the mountainous race. The only other survivor of the break was 's Tony Martin, whom Clarke out sprinted to claim his first professional victory. During the twentieth stage, Clarke placed first at the first three of five categorised climbs, to win the most combative rider for the stage and to secure himself the blue polka-dot jersey, as winner of the mountains classification. In September 2015, it was announced that Clarke would join for the 2016 season. He was added to Australia's roster for the

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, replacing Simon Gerrans (), who had crashed out of the

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. In November 2020, it was announced that Clarke would join the team for the 2021 season. Clarke won the fifth stage of the 2022 Tour de France. He joined the winning breakaway group on a stage that included eleven sections of cobbles, many of which were unfamiliar sections that had never been used in the Tour or

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. As the third week began he was forced to quit the Tour for the first time in his career, due to a positive COVID test.

Major results

;2004 : 1st Rainbow Jersey Track

Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships ;2005 : 5th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo : 8th Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic : 10th Overall Giro delle Regioni ;2006 : 1st Madison, National Junior Track Championships : 4th Overall Giro delle Regioni : 5th Trofeo Città di Brescia : 7th Overall

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::1st Stage 4 : 8th Overall

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: 8th Overall Tour Down Under : 9th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 ;2007 : 2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd Down Under Classic : 3rd GP Liberazione : 6th Overall

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: 7th Overall

::1st Young rider classification : 7th Overall

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: 8th Giro del Mendrisiotto : 8th

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: 10th Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Young rider classification ;2008 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st

Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano The Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano is an under-23 one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2U. Winners References

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: 1st Stage 4

Tour of Japan The Tour of Japan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Japan since 1996 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race. History Tour of Japan was forme ...

: 2nd

: 2nd La Côte Picarde : 2nd Trofeo Alcide Degasperi : 4th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften : 6th Overall Tour of Ireland : 7th Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo ;2009 : 8th Overall

: 8th Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano : 8th

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: 10th Memorial Cimurri ;2010 : 4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;2011 : 5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni : 5th Tre Valli Varesine : 7th Giro del Friuli : 7th Vattenfall Cyclassics : 10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec ;2012 (1 pro win) :

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; ) is an annual stage race, multi-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Ital ...

::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd Overall Tour of Norway : 2nd Rogaland GP : 5th Overall Tour du Haut Var : 7th

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;2013 : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT)

: 7th Road race,

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;2014 (2) : 1st Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 4th

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;2015 :

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::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) ::Held after Stage 4 : 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 4th Overall

: 10th International Road Cycling Challenge : 10th

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;2016 (1) : 1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;2017 : 6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;2018 (1) : 1st Stage 5

: 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;2019 : 2nd Overall Tour de la Provence ::1st Points classification : 2nd Amstel Gold Race : 8th Overall

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of th ...

: 8th

Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...

: 9th Overall BinckBank Tour : 9th

Milan–San Remo Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...

;2020 (1) : 1st La Drôme Classic ;2021 : 5th La Drôme Classic : 5th Primus Classic : 8th

;2022 (1) : 1st Stage 5

: 3rd

GP Miguel Induráin The Grand Prix Miguel Induráin (), formerly the "Grand Prix Navarre" is a Spanish one-day road bicycle race. History The race was inaugurated in 1951, but was limited to local competition. It was rebranded after Spanish cyclist Miguel Indurái ...

: 3rd Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana : 5th Trofeo Calvià : 6th Trofeo Pollença–Port d'Andratx ;2023 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd

Vuelta a Murcia The Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia () is a road bicycle race held in and around Murcia, Spain. The first four editions were reserved to amateurs. Originally the race was held in early March and consisted of five stages. However, due to Spain's fina ...

: 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 5th Dwars door het Hageland : 8th La Drôme Classic : Combativity award Stage 6

;2024 : 6th Overall

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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